Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 159 Good Luck

Huan Xi successfully captured Liangzhou under Fu Jian's threat. If Fu Jian wanted to send troops to represent the country in the future, how could Huan Xi remain indifferent.

Now that Huan Xi has eliminated the threat from Liangzhou, he no longer has any worries. In the future, when Fu Jian attacks Dai, he can take the opportunity to move eastward.

Fu Jian also knew this very well.

He decided to adopt a posture of attacking from the north and defending from the south, that is, operating a defensive line in the southern part of Bingzhou and waiting for opportunities to advance north.

Bingzhou is surrounded by mountains, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. When Fu Jian made up his mind to go on the defensive, even if Huan Xi wanted to attack the Taiyuan Basin and Changzhi Basin from the east of Gaowang City, it would not be easy.

Seeing the Yu army retreating, the Jin army all raised their arms to celebrate. Although the Yu army never posed a real threat to the city, it did not prevent the soldiers from celebrating their victory after nearly half a month of offensive and defensive battles.

Shen Jin was not too excited. He could clearly feel that after learning about Huan Xi's attack on Liangzhou, Fu Jian hurriedly went south, hoping to tentatively attack Gaogao Wangcheng and capture Puban.

In fact, there was no desperate determination to seize the city, and no adequate preparations were made.

After finding that the city was difficult to capture, they decisively chose to withdraw their troops.

As for rejecting Fu Jian's promise, Shen Jin has no regrets.

As a Jin native from Jiangdong, he really did not envy the prince of Yu State.

He had finally washed away the shame his father had brought to the Wuxing Shen family. How could Shen Jin add to it again?

Shen Jin is just sorry now that he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders and cannot return home in glory for the time being.

After confirming that Fu Jian was not making a false move, but was actually leading his troops back north, Deng Qiang led 20,000 state and county soldiers across the Yellow River and returned to Guanzhong.

Jingzhou, Jiangling.

On the official road in the north of the city, riding south alone, he revealed his victory.

"Great victory! Great victory in Liangzhou! Young Duke Huan takes Liangzhou!"

The postman gallops forward, and wherever there are people, he always shouts.

On both sides of the official road, there were people plowing in the fields with small plows. They were all delighted when they heard this.

Due to the communication needs of Huan Wen and Huan Xi, they set up a large number of post stations between Chang'an and Jiangling, so that they could change people and horses when delivering messages.

Although Huan Xi has his own title, Duke of Jingzhao County, people in the south of the Yangtze River are still accustomed to calling him Little Huan Gong to distinguish him from his father Huan Wen.

The postman rushed into Jiangling. When he came to the residence of General Zhengxi to meet Huan Wen, his voice was already hoarse.

"Little Huan Gong has taken Liangzhou, and I specially report the good news to Huan Gong!"

With a hoarse voice, the postman presented Huan Xi's home letter to Huan Wen together with the memorial to the court.

Huan Wen was not only pleasantly surprised, but also surprised inside.

After all, Qianliang's strength was not weak. He was not optimistic about the prospects of Huan Xi's western expedition. He felt that Huan Xi could only conquer a few cities and plunder some people.

But he didn't expect that he would be able to decide Liangzhou in one battle.

Huan Wen couldn't wait to open the letter from home. Huan Xi wrote down all the specific details of the transfer to Liangzhou in the letter. After Huan Wen read it, he handed the letter to the plotter Xi Chao and said with emotion:

"Xi'er is really blessed with good luck."

Xi Chao laughed and said:

"The prince is blessed with good fortune, so it is not a blessing for the lord."

After so many years, although he has never been by Huan Xi's side, Xi Chao has never wavered. He always believes that Huan Xi is the destined person to end this troubled world.

After receiving the letter from Huan Wen and reading it carefully, Xi Chao finally understood why Huan Wen felt such emotion.

The process of Huan Xi taking over Liangzhou was too simple and smooth.

If we really want to talk about Pingliang's first minister, it has to be Zhang Zuo. Zhang Zuo committed adultery with Zhang Chonghua’s mother and wife and usurped power through edicts, which gave Huan Xi an excuse to send troops.

It was Zhang Zuo who forced Xie Ai to rebel and gave Huan Xi even more power.

Zhang Zuo even ventured out of the city to pursue him and lost ten thousand of his elite cavalry.

Even after his death, Zhang Zuo was reported to various places, which also shook the will of the defenders everywhere to resist for Huan Xi.

Shi Hu attacked Qian Liang so many times but failed without success. However, Huan Xi met such an opponent and easily pacified Liangzhou.

At this time, the generals who learned the news came to congratulate Huan Wen one after another.

Huan Xi had notified Huan Wen in advance that he was about to conquer Liangzhou, but due to the need for confidentiality, Huan Wen did not make it public.

Therefore, in Huan Wen's military mansion, there were not many people who knew in advance that Huan Xi would attack Liangzhou, only Xi Chao.

The incident happened suddenly, and many generals were puzzled:

Didn’t the Crown Prince have a peace treaty with Zhang Chonghua? Why did the good news suddenly come that he had taken over Liangzhou.

Under the congratulations of everyone, Huan Wen's old face blossomed with a smile. He answered everyone's doubts, and the generals all lamented that Zhang Zuo had committed suicide.

At the same time, as the post soldiers reported success along the way after entering the city, the news that Huan Xi took Liangzhou quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Jiangling City, and even Sima Xingnan of Linhe Gongfu heard about it.

Sima Xingnan didn't care how Huan Xi took over Liangzhou, and her son had gained face for herself. With her character, she naturally planned to visit relatives in Jiankang.

Although the relatives in Jiankang City will know the news sooner or later, it is a pity that he cannot accept their congratulations and compliments in person.

When Huan Wen returned to the mansion, Sima Xingnan excitedly told him about the incident:

"Old slave, I will go to Jiankang to visit my relatives tomorrow."

Huan Wen also knew his wife's character and had no objection. After all, with Jiangzhou in hand, Sima Xingnan would not be in any danger even if he lived in Jiankang.

"Why is the princess so anxious?"

Huan Wen smiled.

During this period of time, good news has come frequently for Huan Wen.

First, he captured Jiangzhou, as well as the military power of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou without any blood.

Now that Huan Xi has taken Liangzhou again, the Huan family has taken another big step forward to truly dominate the world.

Unexpectedly, Sima Xingnan said:

"I can't wait to set out today and ask those people face to face whether our Huan family is only capable of bullying orphans and widowed mothers!"

Huan Wen's face turned dark immediately.

It turned out that Huan Wen was sitting in Jingzhou and did not make much contribution after conquering Shu. However, he used Yin Hao's failure in the Northern Expedition as an excuse to launch an attack and intimidate the court, thus taking control of Jiangzhou.

Scholars in Jiangdong discussed this matter, and most of them ridiculed Huan Wen for bullying other people's orphans and widowed mothers in order to conquer the world.

There was nothing Sima Xingnan didn't do, but Huan Wen also had nowhere to vent his anger. He couldn't get angry at Sima Xingnan, so he had to secretly swear that when he settled in the Central Plains, he would also lead his troops to Jiankang and have a good time. Look at the faces of those people.

When Huan Wen was daydreaming, he heard Sima Xingnan say angrily:

"Old slave! Are you thinking that you can be romantic and happy after I leave?"

Huan Wen was shocked. He no longer had the previous heroic spirit in his heart. He shouted to Qu:

"Princess! You are wronged! I have always followed the rules. Even if the princess is not in Jiangling, I don't dare to act arrogantly!"

　There is another chapter of 4,000 words, which will be published around one o'clock in the morning.

　　

　

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